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Man United 0-1 Coventry - April 29, 1989 / Division 1 1988/1989

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Division 1 1988/1989 - Round 36

Old Trafford - Manchester - England

April 29, 1989

Man United

0 - 1

Coventry

Gary Bannister

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0' - Goal Gary Bannister

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46' - Substitution Lee Martinis substituted by Mark Robins46

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

0 - 1

Coventry

Man United Coventry

Team line-ups

Man United

Leighton

Jim Leighton

Scotland

B.date24/07/1958

Age30 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Bruce

Steve Bruce

England

B.date31/12/1960

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

McGrath

Paul McGrath

Republic of Ireland

B.date04/12/1959

Age29 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Donaghy

Mal Donaghy

Northern Ireland

B.date13/09/1957

Age31 years

H1m75

positionLeft central defender

Martin46

Lee Martin

England

B.date05/02/1968

Age21 years

positionLeft full-back

Duxbury

Mike Duxbury

England

B.date01/09/1959

Age29 years

positionRight full-back

Beardsmore

Russell Beardsmore

England

B.date28/09/1968

Age20 years

H1m72

positionMidfield

Robson

Bryan Robson

England

B.date11/01/1957

Age32 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Whiteside

Norman Whiteside

Northern Ireland

B.date07/05/1965

Age23 years

H1m84

positionForward

McClair

Brian McClair

Scotland

B.date08/12/1963

Age25 years

H1m75

positionVersatile Forward

Hughes

Mark Hughes

Wales

B.date01/11/1963

Age25 years

H1m75

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jim Leighton		30	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Bruce		28	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul McGrath		29	202	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mal Donaghy		31	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lee Martin	46	21	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mike Duxbury		29	352	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Russell Beardsmore		20	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bryan Robson		32	324	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Norman Whiteside		23	276	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Brian McClair		25	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mark Hughes		25	167	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

147

Coventry

Ogrizovic

Steve Ogrizovic

England

B.date12/09/1957

Age31 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Borrows

Brian Borrows

England

B.date20/12/1960

Age28 years

H1m78

positionSweeper

Kilcline

Brian Kilcline

England

B.date07/05/1962

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Peake

Trevor Peake

England

B.date10/02/1957

Age32 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Dobson

Tony Dobson

England

B.date05/02/1969

Age20 years

H1m86

positionLeft full-back

Emerson

Dean Emerson

England

B.date27/12/1962

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Phillips

David Phillips

Wales

B.date29/07/1963

Age25 years

H1m78

positionRight Midfielder

Smith

David Smith

England

B.date29/03/1968

Age21 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

Bannister0

Gary Bannister

England

B.date22/07/1960

Age28 years

H1m70

positionForward

Speedie

David Speedie

Scotland

B.date20/02/1960

Age29 years

H1m68

positionForward

Regis

Cyrille Regis

England

B.date09/02/1958

Age31 years

H1m83

positionStriker

		Age	Match num	Note
G	Steve Ogrizovic	31	204	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Borrows	28	152	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Brian Kilcline	26	148	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Trevor Peake	32	207	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Dobson	20	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dean Emerson	26	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Phillips	25	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Smith	21	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gary Bannister	28	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Speedie	29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Cyrille Regis	31	169	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

111

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Mark Robins	46	19	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Lee Martin

Ralph Milne

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Dean Emerson

Steve Sedgley

OUT

Brian Kilcline

Graham Rodger

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

125

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

53 %

Ferguson vs Coventry

1 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on April 29, 1989

Ferguson vs Sillett

1 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on April 29, 1989

Manager

Age

Match num

John Sillett

144

Success rate in this team:

42 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Sillett vs Man United

3 victories

3 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 29, 1989

Sillett vs Ferguson

3 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 29, 1989

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Key figures

No Manchester United manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Sir Alex Ferguson has done less than 0.89 goals conceded per game .

Man United keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal conceded at home running (since 02/04/1989).

End of streak for Coventry after 5 matches with at least one goal conceded (since 27/03/1989). It was the best streak for the club since 06/10/1987-21/11/1987 (9 matches).

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VManchester United 1-0 Tottenham05/02/1989

VManchester United 1-0 Bournemouth22/02/1989

LManchester United 0-1 Nottingham Forest18/03/1989

VManchester United 2-0 Luton Town25/03/1989

DManchester United 1-1 Arsenal02/04/1989

LManchester United 0-2 Derby County15/04/1989

Overall

VManchester United 2-0 Luton Town25/03/1989

LNottingham Forest 2-0 Manchester United27/03/1989

DManchester United 1-1 Arsenal02/04/1989

DMillwall 0-0 Manchester United08/04/1989

LManchester United 0-2 Derby County15/04/1989

LCharlton 1-0 Manchester United22/04/1989

Current form

Away

DMiddlesbrough 1-1 Coventry04/02/1989

LMillwall 1-0 Coventry25/02/1989

DWest Ham 1-1 Coventry11/03/1989

DCharlton 0-0 Coventry25/03/1989

LDerby County 1-0 Coventry01/04/1989

DLuton Town 2-2 Coventry15/04/1989

Overall

DCharlton 0-0 Coventry25/03/1989

VCoventry 2-1 Southampton27/03/1989

LDerby County 1-0 Coventry01/04/1989

VCoventry 2-1 Norwich City08/04/1989

DLuton Town 2-2 Coventry15/04/1989

LCoventry 0-3 Queens Park Rangers22/04/1989

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	2	5
Drawless streak	1	2
Goalless streak	1	3
Conceding streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	6	2
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	2	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

32	Number of games (Competition total)	35
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
11	Victories (Competition total)	13
8	Victories (Home / Away)	4
12	Draws (Competition total)	11
5	Draws (Home / Away)	8
9	Losses (Competition total)	11
2	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

38	Goals scored (Competition total)	43
23	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
27	Goals conceded (Competition total)	39
10	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.19	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.23
1.53	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
0.84	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.11
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.06

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	17
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
13	Clean sheets (Competition total)	11
8	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	5
10	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	10
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
13	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	18
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	9
2-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (3 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Mark Hughes	13 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	14 goals	David Speedie
Mark Hughes	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	5 goals	David Speedie
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Brian Kilcline
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Brian Kilcline
Mark Hughes	13 goals during the last 28 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 5 matches	David Speedie

Historical head to head

Home

27 matches

13 v

7 d

7 l

42 gf

23 ga

Away

27 matches

8 v

6 d

13 l

31 gf

36 ga

Total

54 matches

21 v

13 d

20 l

73 gf

59 ga

Historical head to head

Home

27 matches

13 v

6 d

8 l

36 gf

31 ga

Away

27 matches

7 v

7 d

13 l

23 gf

42 ga

Total

54 matches

20 v

13 d

21 l

59 gf

73 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	October 25, 1967
Home	4 - 0	October 25, 1967

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	December 28, 1982
Away	1 - 0	January 31, 1987

Latest head to head

December 10, 1988 - Division 1 1988/1989

Coventry

1 - 0

Man United

February 06, 1988 - Division 1 1987/1988

Man United

1 - 0

Coventry

September 05, 1987 - Division 1 1987/1988

Coventry

0 - 0

Man United

May 06, 1987 - Division 1 1986/1987

Coventry

1 - 1

Man United

January 31, 1987 - FA Cup 1986/1987

Man United

0 - 1

Coventry

Best historical scorers against Coventry

Lou Macari	7 goals	1976 - 1983
George Best	5 goals	1967 - 1973
Bobby Charlton	5 goals	1963 - 1972
Sammy McIlroy	3 goals	1979 - 1980
Norman Whiteside	3 goals	1984 - 1987
John Aston	3 goals	1967 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Man United

Brian Alderson	3 goals	1973 - 1974
Ernie Hunt	3 goals	1969 - 1971
Steve Whitton	2 goals	1981 - 1982
Ferguson Michael	2 goals	1977 - 1979
Willie Carr	2 goals	1971 - 1972
Ian Wallace	2 goals	1977 - 1977

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Coventry

Arthur Albiston	23 matches	1977 - 1988
Martin Buchan	20 matches	1972 - 1982
Alex Stepney	18 matches	1967 - 1977
Sammy McIlroy	18 matches	1971 - 1981
Steve Coppell	17 matches	1975 - 1983
Lou Macari	17 matches	1973 - 1983

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 30/03/1963. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Mick Coop	22 matches	1967 - 1981
Billy Glazier	13 matches	1967 - 1974
Tommy Hutchison	12 matches	1973 - 1980
Chris Cattlin	11 matches	1968 - 1974
Steve Hunt	10 matches	1979 - 1983
Brian Roberts	10 matches	1977 - 1983